There could be a Pokémon Go live-action movie in the works

Pokémon Go – released to much fanfare last week – is an app-based augmented-reality edition of the popular video game franchise and sees the fictional creatures superimposed into real life settings. Users can roam the real world to search for Pokémon.

Deadline reports that Legendary Pictures (the company behind the Batman reboots) are in talks to acquire the rights for a live-action Pokémon movie following the success of the app. There is also talk of Max Landis (Chronicle writer and son of John Landis) being involved in the project.

It’s not the first video game adaptation that Legendary Pictures has produced, with the company recently helming the Warcraft movie, directed by David Bowie’s son Duncan Jones.